Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Every party skews the facts to their advantage, and inevitably,
the minority party must resort to telling the truth."

~ Eric Schaub  

~ Frederick the Great  

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights,
we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

~ Eric Hoffer  

~ Herbert Spencer  

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit
if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

~ Charley Reese  

"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."

~ Harlan F. Stone  

"The Jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."

~ John Jay  

"We recognize, as appellants urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence. This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision."

~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland  

"I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution
under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider,
that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress
had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Stop wasting jail space on prostitutes, drug users and other
victimless criminals. Even if we find it morally acceptable to
imprison these people for choices they make regarding their bodies,
we must realize that we simply cannot afford to continue clogging
the court system and the prison system with these harmless criminals."

~ Edward B. Wagner  

~ Johann von Schiller  

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"

~ Patrick Henry  

"Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

~ Tench Coxe